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- Author: Koen Stroeken
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Year: 2018
- Pages: 328
- ISBN: 9781785339851
- ISBN-10: 1785339850
- ISBN-13: 9781785339851
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings - and found them. The resulting misunderstandings have lasted until this day. Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa the model of rule has been medicine - and not the colonizer's despotic administrator, the missionary's divine king, or Vansina's big man. In a wide area populated by speakers of Bantu and other languages of the Niger-Congo cluster, both cult and dynastic clan draw on the fertility shrine, rainmaking charm and drum they inherit.
- Author: Koen Stroeken
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Year: 2018
- Pages: 328
- ISBN: 9781785339851
- ISBN-10: 1785339850
- ISBN-13: 9781785339851
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings - and found them. The resulting misunderstandings have lasted until this day. Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa the model of rule has been medicine - and not the colonizer's despotic administrator, the missionary's divine king, or Vansina's big man. In a wide area populated by speakers of Bantu and other languages of the Niger-Congo cluster, both cult and dynastic clan draw on the fertility shrine, rainmaking charm and drum they inherit.
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